Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Prisoners, Say No To Being Used As Slave Labor and
Withhold Their Labor Power In Nationwide Strike
with
Cole Dorsey and Michael Forest, Incarcerated Workers Organizing
Committee, Industrial Workers of the World

Prisons canât run without inmates, in more ways than one. Prisoners wash
floors, work in the laundries and kitchens, and provide a large amount of the
labor that keeps their facilities running. In return, they earn pennies per hour
or even no pay at all. Thatâs sparking what may have been the largest
prison strike yet as inmates across the country stopped working on Sept. 9.
The strikers are calling for an end to forced labor and what they call âprison
slaveryâ. And, itâs no coincidence that they picked Sept. 9 as the strike date:
It was the 45th anniversary of the Attica rebellion, when prisoners at the
Attica Correctional Facility in New York demanded their rights in one of the
most significant civil rights occurrences of the century.

"I'M BEGINNING TO BELIEVE THAT `U.S.A.' STANDS FOR THE
UNDERPRIVILEGED SLAVES OF AMERICA" wrote a 20th-century
prisoner from Mississippi in a letter detailing the daily violence he
witnessed behind prison walls. His statement resounds with a long tradition
of prisoners, particularly African-American prisoners, who have used the
language and narrative of slavery to describe the conditions of their
imprisonment. In the year 2000, as the punishment industry becomes a
leading employer and producer for the U.S. "state," and as private prison
and "security" corporations bargain to control the profits of this traffic in
human degradation, the analogies between slavery and prison abound.
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